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Development of Tearing Instability in a Current Sheet Forming by Sheared Incompressible Flow
Elizabeth A. Tolman, Nuno F. Loureiro, Dmitri A. Uzdensky
Sweet-Parker current sheets in high Lundquist number plasmas are unstable to tearing, suggesting they will not form in physical systems. Understanding magnetic reconnection thus re…
An Experimental Platform for Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection
J. D. Hare, L. G. Suttle, S. V. Lebedev +12
We describe a versatile pulsed-power driven platform for magnetic reconnection experiments, based on exploding wire arrays driven in parallel [Suttle, L. G. et al. PRL, 116, 225001…
Fully Kinetic Simulation of 3D Kinetic Alfven Turbulence
D. Groselj, A. Mallet, N. F. Loureiro +1
We present results from a three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of plasma turbulence, resembling the plasma conditions found at kinetic scales of the solar wind. The spectr…
A Drift-Kinetic Analytical Model for SOL Plasma Dynamics at Arbitrary Collisionality
R. Jorge, P. Ricci, N. F. Loureiro
A drift-kinetic model to describe the plasma dynamics in the scrape-off layer region of tokamak devices at arbitrary collisionality is derived. Our formulation is based on a gyroav…
The fully kinetic Biermann battery and associated generation of pressure anisotropy
K. M. Schoeffler, N. F. Loureiro, L. O. Silva
The dynamical evolution of a fully kinetic, collisionless system with imposed background density and temperature gradients is investigated analytically. The temperature gradient le…
Collisionless Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic and Kinetic Turbulence
N. F. Loureiro, S. Boldyrev
It has recently been proposed (Loureiro & Boldyrev 2017; Mallet et al. 2017) that the inertial interval in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is terminated at small scales not by…
Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence mediated by reconnection
Stanislav Boldyrev, Nuno F. Loureiro
Magnetic field fluctuations in MHD turbulence can be viewed as current sheets that are progressively more anisotropic at smaller scales. As suggested by Loureiro & Boldyrev (2017)…
Fully kinetic versus reduced-kinetic modelling of collisionless plasma turbulence
D. Groselj, S. S. Cerri, A. Banon Navarro +5
We report the results of a direct comparison between different kinetic models of collisionless plasma turbulence in two spatial dimensions. The models considered include a first pr…
Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments
J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, L. G. Suttle +16
We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfvénic.The intrinsically magneti…